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"People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we've made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul. You'll find a new view called "Word cloud" on your Free Text Polls."

Transform your text into word clouds! Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Make and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut!

An alternative to Wordle which seems to be down at the moment

The use of word clouds in the classroom is quickly gaining pace because of the number of different ways in which they can be used to promote student learning.

This is really cool! It reminds me of Wordle a bit. The ads are a little frustrating and get in the way, but otherwise it's pretty fun. Also interesting to see how words are connected to each other. I typed in "farce" and got definitons for cooking procedures as well as the literary definition. Who knew?? :)

Get some ideas on how to use intertactive whiteboards, pocket videos, GIS and GPS, netbooks, google earth wordle, wikis, prezi, voicethread, webcams and twitter in the classroom.

A word cloud creator with an impressive range of customisation. Just enter the text file or url to input the text and then tweak.